How can mapping capture the dynamic entanglements of space and time in a rapidly changing world? Spacetimes Matter is an invitation to rethink mapping as a critical tool for understanding multiple spacetimesand how they come to matter. Introducing methodologies of spacetime mapping, the anthology presents a collection of interpretative, qualitative, and reflexive approaches to decoding urban processes, as well as socio-spatial and ecological dynamics. The mapping protocols collected here range from artistic and performative mappings and game development to complex, multimodal diagrams, and immersive virtual environments. Spacetimes Matter enables new perspectives for scholars and practitioners seeking insights into the shifting politics, processes, and imaginaries that make up contemporary more-than-human societies.
- Introduces spacetime mapping as a novel approach for considering multiple spatialities and temporalities
- In-depth methodological reflections, grounded in diverse regional and disciplinary contexts
- Engages with decolonial and more-than-human perspectives
Jamie-Scott Baxter is senior design researcher at the Chair of Urban Design and Urbanisation at the Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin. His research broadly covers urban natures, spatial theory, and critical spatial design, with a current focus on multispecies health in landscape transformation.
Anna Juliane Heinrich is researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Urban Design and Urban Development at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technische Universität Berlin. Her research covers spatial theory, planning processes, and cultures, the spatialities of childhood and youth, and methods in spatial research.
Séverine Marguin is senior lecturer at the Chair of Sociology of Architecture and Planning at the Institute for Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on cultural and knowledge sociology, sociology of space, interdisciplinary and design-based methods.
Vivien Sommer is junior research group leader of the Emmy Noether Group "The Socio-Spatial Memory of European Borders: Dispositives of Remembering and Forgetting" at the Leibniz-Institute for Research on Society and Space. She researches the complex network of knowledge, space, and memory.
